Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place with its 2-0 record for four. The Crimson defeated defeated Cornell 5-1 earlier this season, but the Big Red trailed only 2-1 midway through the third period. "They gave us a good game down here," coach Cooney Weiland says, "and they are going to be tougher on their own ios. We're going to have our hands full...
...though the claim is, that the majority of Moslems love the S.A.O. better than the F.L.N. Susini, the young doctrinaire, and Salan, the old politician-general, have become close friends. He listens intently to Susini's urgings that France needs a regime like Generalissimo Franco's in Spain, "only tougher." But Salan prefers the role of a mystical statesman, without making any public declaration on future policy. Salan operates in politics as he has in war?slowly, thoughtfully, his undoubted courage overlaid with caution...
...precariously narrow ledge. From far left to far right, De Gaulle is under attack by France's politicians. Members of his own government are suspected of opposing his Algerian solution, especially Premier Michel Debre, who on the record has favored a tougher line than De Gaulle in opposing the F.L.N. and supports a French Algeria. With the French people, De Gaulle's popularity may have somewhat diminished, but he still has a powerful hold on them. He and they are locked in a special political embrace: they need him because they know that no one else stands a chance...
Dunbar's importance lies in harsh statistics: 30% of U.S. high school students never graduate; the rate hits 50% in some blighted urban areas. As automation invades new fields, as unions make old fields tougher to enter, the unskilled dropouts are almost unemployable. Unwanted, they wallow in anger and sometimes crime. The U.S. can ill afford such "social dynamite," wrote James B. Conant recently in Shims and Suburbs. At Chicago's Dunbar,* Conant was delighted to find just about "the ideal in vocational education...
...persuade Portugal to agree to a face-saving U.N. arbitration. The attempt foundered on Portugal's refusal. Once the invasion was over (in 36 hours), Galbraith thought the Goa matter should be dropped, argued that further U.S. censure of India was futile and would only make the Indians tougher to deal with on other issues. He sent off a critical telegram to the State Department when his old friend and sometime political hero, Adlai Stevenson, made a U.N. speech that sharply censured India's action. But Galbraith himself does not hesitate to criticize the Indians for their often...